Nikhil Deshmukh

Scale-free

[Nikhil Deshmukh @nikhildes]

@Yuchenj_UW Congrats on the launch!! We are working on structured information extraction from scientific papers to create open tools for meta-science research.

[Nikhil Deshmukh @nikhildes]

@ladyleet Microsoft Fabric

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

I get frustrated with the lack of ecological planning in the abundance agenda stuff. If society is going to build a lot of houses (we should!) we should plan for them to last a long time, and if we plan for them to last a long time, we need to think about climate migration.

[Nikhil Deshmukh @nikhildes]

@dearclarissa Google sponsors Atlantic articles now? How does that work?

[Nikhil Deshmukh @nikhildes]

@TheStalwart SF has way more exited founders plowing their personal wealth into idea stage companies

[Nikhil Deshmukh @nikhildes]

@sfmcguire79 Just like the climate scientists https://t.co/TiPythEs1O

[Nikhil Deshmukh @nikhildes]

@drvolts How does the DOE incentivize clean tech customers (typically large enterprises) to take on the risk of novel tech and pay the associated green premium?

[Nikhil Deshmukh @nikhildes]

@alanthefisher @StatisticUrban South quince street!

[roon @tszzl]

you’ve got no idea how many PhD hours are wasted on horrible matlab scripts handed down like family heirlooms

[annie @soychotic]

Putting non-tech millennials in tech and giving them titles like “Product Owner”, “Project Manager”, and “Scrum Master” is just a modern Stanford Prison Experiment

[sierra lyons @sierra_298]

I can’t help but think about how hurtful and (tone deaf?) it is to label gen z as the generation that “doesn’t want to work” when many of us graduated college in the pandemic, have yet to experience job security, yet are very eager for full time, salaried roles

[Alex Danco @Alex_Danco]

My weirdest piece of writing advice is: write your first draft in google docs, and then edit *on your phone*.

It sounds deranged, but I’d say >50% of my useful editing happens on my phone:

-it’s hard to add things, but relatively easy to delete (good!)
-the mobile layout is so horizontally constricted that you’re forced to read long sentences in broken up chunks, which helps you refactor into active voice; more direct sentence construction.
-when editing in random 2 minute segments (in line; in the bathroom; wherever) you don’t have time to “fall in love with your own writing”, so to speak; you’re more objective and savage
-this one’s abstract, but composing on the phone medium is more conducive to brevity because that’s what we’re used to writing there (texts, tweets, not docs)

[roon @tszzl]

one weird thing is that people who are addicted to working get the most say about the future of products and culture. but people who work a lot are really strange people several deviations off of the center

[Ananya Roy @ananyaUCLA]

Just saying…
And this is why we insist that we keep each other safe.
Whether from violent, weapon-wielding mobs or from COVID.
Because our institutions won’t.

[Prachee Avasthi @PracheeAC]

Burnout isn’t just from overwork, it can be from lack of agency to affect outcomes. I think people often blame the former when the problem is the latter

[abiola @abxola]

Everyone is tired because individually we’re trying to do all the things that can only really be achieved by communal living

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

a gentle reminder that no matter how normalised it becomes, emotion detection/classification/prediction is a bogus scam with 0 scientific grounding

[Nikhil Deshmukh @nikhildes]

Too many people working on progress. Not enough people working on sustainability.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Government-funded R&D is the main engine of economic development.

[Nikhil Deshmukh @nikhildes]

@IDoTheThinking The baylands are amazing, especially for birdwatching.